(OOC: Before I start this fic, some quick information. This fic is set in the northern continent of Dienzora, a planet that some of you may be familiar with, during the Gaeran year of 1267. Thusly it's completely separated from Gaera, though an event or two that's been brought up in Gaera may find its way here. Important information about Dienzora will be put in preliminary OOC for the episode that it becomes necessary to understanding the story.
For this first episode, important stuff is as follows: Dienzora has a thirty-eight hour day, and its technology level [at least for the North Dominion, as the northern continent is called] is best described as futuristic. As for magic, this is before the time that many of the rules on magic use were put into place by the North Dominion's government.
SO, with that out of the way, comments and criticism are appreciated.)
Exhaustion. The inability to concentrate for long stretches. Reduced hunger and increased weight loss.
Normally, with these kinds of symptoms, Adam Gormand would take an extended vacation. He had felt these symptoms before. The last time he felt this way, he had seen a doctor and learned he was overworking himself. But he had no chance of a vacation this time. His team at the Dalvarin Research Base had been working on what was intended to be a military breakthrough: a drug that could turn a normal human into a superhuman creature. If Adam backed down from this now, he'd risk removal from the project and lose his chance at being part of history in the making. Yet Adam knew that what he was doing was not healthy.
In an effort to reduce the stress he was taking upon himself, he spent a couple of hours a day meditating in the garden that was behind his house. Oddly enough, a window in the back of the house was where Adam had placed the cage that contained Breaker, a black mouse that Adam had taken in as a pet partially because it seemed to relieve his stress in a way he couldn't understand.
After meditation, Adam usually wound up going right to sleep. On some nights he would suffer from insomnia, tossing and turning for several hours and awaking exhausted. The problem only got worse, and Adam considered a vacation more and more. However, the drug research project, nicknamed Project Veraconin, kept getting more and more intense. The original form of the drug, used directly, had no effect, and the research team had made the decision to add to the drug rather than modify it.
Many of their methods were bizarre - adding human blood and brain cells, for instance, was one of the first chemical setups they tried. Out of ten sets of chemicals tested, this one seemed to be the closest to being the superchemical that was hoped for, and within days of testing the tenth method - which was adding steroidlike chemicals, and which turned out to be the second closest chemical set to success - the research team made up their minds. They were going to combine the drug, human blood and brain cells, and a rare form of magic that two of the researchers had.
It was a risky gamble, but Adam could not wait for this moment. The research team might just have been able to successfully create the superchemical, and history would be made.
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